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… and the Federal government, but a deep reinterpretation of many of its earlier provisions as well. (Even the modern notion of the “right to bear arms” as an individual right is a post-Civil War idea!)

The Present Crisis
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Yonatan Zunger
Jay Maynard
Jay Maynard
Jul 28, 2017 · 1 min read

Wrong. Read DC v. Heller. They laid out how the right to keep and bear arms was thought of as an individual right by the Founders, and laid out that way in their writings.

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